On 13 July 2010 21:53, Philipp Überbacher <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-07-13 15:38:04 +0200: >> Currently extra/scons-1.3.0-1 is marked out-of-date, which is probably >> due to the fact that since last month, version 2 has become the stable >> branch upstream. From http://www.scons.org: >> >> "14 June 2010 >> SCons production release 2.0.0.final.0 is now available from the >> download page at SourceForge. This is the production release for the >> 2.0 series. The 2.0 series drops support for all pre-2.4 versions of >> Python. See the ChangeLog for a complete list of changes in the >> release." >> >> Version 1 is still supported, as evidenced by the development branch updates: >> >> "26 June 2010 >> SCons release 1.3.0.d20100626 is now available from the download page >> at SourceForge. Fix the ability to append to default $*FLAGS values >> (which are implemented as CLVar instances) in a copied construction >> environment without affecting the original construction environment's >> value. See the ChangeLog for a complete list of changes in the >> release." >> >> The following are the packages that makedepend on scons: >> >> == extra == >> hydrogen >> ardour >> linuxdcpp >> >> == community == >> ffmpeg2theora >> oregano >> btanks >> kleansweep >> pingus >> dangerdeep >> fceux >> mypaint >> glob2 >> >> We can either update it to version 2 or move version 1 to a scons1 >> package. If there are no objections and build issues, I'll go ahead >> with the former, as it doesn't appear to be that popular to warrant >> both major branches in the repos. > > I do expect issues. There were scons issues with ardour in the past. > ardour3 moved to waf and that's where devlopment is going on. They > likely aren't interested in fixing scons issues when they arise. > I guess testing will scons2 will show which way to go.
scons 2.x is now in [testing] - it will replace scons 1.x in [extra]. I had tested all affected packages and they built fine, but for anyone else with corner cases, please file a bug upstream. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
